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Today's cybersecurity landscape reveals significant threats and vulnerabilities. A troubling report indicates that White House network addresses were exploited by multiple residential proxy services, raising concerns about data security. Attackers are actively probing for a recently identified remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in WordPress, highlighting ongoing risks in widely used platforms. A zero-day vulnerability in Zyxel switches has been exploited despite previous patches failing to address the issue, putting numerous devices at risk. Meanwhile, the Indian CERT warns of AI-driven cyberattacks targeting fintech and crypto sectors. Additionally, phishing scams exploiting popular culture, such as the upcoming GTA 6 release, continue to proliferate, indicating a shift in tactics among cybercriminals. Organizations are urged to bolster their defenses against these evolving threats.
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This week Help Net Security is at the Mandalay Bay, where Arsenal is running alongside the Briefings. If you’ve never been, it’s the corner of Black Hat that feels least like a conference and most like a workshop: a room full of stations where the people who wrote the tools stand behind laptops and...
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a "factory-shipped backdoor" implanted in at least 20 Chinese router models from Zbtlink.
According to a new report from VulnCheck, the implant appears in all 21 firmware images currently available from Zbtlink that span more than 2 years. The bac...
Patches were rolled out for two dozen vulnerabilities, including one with public proof-of-concept (PoC) code.
The post Cisco Patches Critical SD-WAN, IOS XE, FMC Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, sentenced Maksim Silnikau to 16 years in prison on August 5 for creating and running Ransom Cartel, the ransomware-as-a-service operation he stood up in 2021.
Between 2021 and 2023, Ransom Cartel conspirators attacked at least 18 companies, including firms i...
Day two at Black Hat, and Check Point Research brought two talks to the stage that gave the room plenty to think about. One dug into a fifteen year old blind spot sitting inside Windows itself. The other pulled apart the agent frameworks powering today’s AI products and found familiar bugs wearing n...
A newly patched security flaw impacting on-premise versions of JetBrains TeamCity has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).
The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-63077 (CVSS score: 9.8), a case of deserializati...
Tracked as CVE-2026-63077, the critical bug can be exploited without authentication for remote code execution.
The post Hackers Start Exploiting Recent JetBrains TeamCity Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Connor Riley Moucka pleaded guilty in Seattle federal court on Wednesday to computer fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and a related conspiracy over the 2024 breaches of Snowflake customer accounts.
The intrusions reached at least 165 organizations and exposed records belonging to at lea...
The OWASP GenAI Security Project has released the 2026 edition of its Top 10 for LLM Applications and, for the first time, the list was influenced by real-world incidents. The two top entries – Prompt Injection and Sensitive Information Disclosure – remained constant, but the order shifted more than...
Snowflake hacker Connor Moucka pleads guilty after breaching 165 organizations, stealing billions of records, and extorting victims. Connor Riley Moucka, 26, of Kitchener, Ontario, pleaded guilty this week to a computer hacking conspiracy that compromised over 165 organizations, stole billions of cu...
In this interview with Help Net Security, Rui Ribeiro, CEO of Jscrambler, explains why the browser has become a security problem organizations do not control. Companies do not own the device, the extensions, or the network path, yet that is where application logic, third-party code, customer data, a...
Cybercriminals and state-backed hacking groups are abusing trusted identities, cloud services, AI tools, and software supply chains to gain access while avoiding detection, according to CrowdStrike’s 2026 Threat Hunting Report. Intrusion activity increased by about 4% over the past year. Even though...
It’s just a remote maintenance function, says Zbtlink
A backup job fires at two in the morning. A scanner walks the same AWS account an hour later, a deployment pipeline assumes a role at four, and a logging agent runs straight through the night. Each of those actions carries a credential issued to a machine. An attacker holding one of those credential...
Cloudflare open sourced Cloudflare OS, the agent platform whose first version its own employees have used since May. Every resource an agent reads gets recorded, the record follows whatever the agent produces, and when a second person opens that output the platform checks them against the underlying...
Guide pratique mkcert sur Debian : créez votre autorité de certification locale et générez des certificats HTTPS reconnus par vos navigateurs.
Le post mkcert : créer des certificats HTTPS valides en local sur Debian a été publié sur IT-Connect.
President Donald Trump has talked with Chinese President Xi Jinping about Southeast Asian scam compounds, a State Department official told senators at a hearing on the transnational issue.
Georgia's State Security Service is investigating whether foreign entities were behind the spread of fabricated stories claiming that Georgians were mistreating Russian tourists.